Jon Stewart Announces Surprise Return to 'The Daily Show,' But It Won't Be Like Last Time

Nearly a decade after leaving the popular Comedy Central late-night show, Jon Stewart is returning to host The Daily Show just in time for the 2024 presidential election. However, the 61-year-old comedian will only be partially hosting when he gets back behind the news desk next month.

As reported by Deadline, Stewart will host one night a week through the election cycle, starting on Feb. 12. He will appear on the long-running satirical news show on Monday nights, which are believed to be the most heavily watched day, and will also give him no shortage of material to catch viewers up on following the weekend.

With no new permanent host having been installed since Trevor Noah departed more than a year ago, the other nights of the week will be hosted by a rotating slate of Daily Show correspondents which currently includes Desi Lydic, Michael Kosta, Ronny Chieng, and Jordan Klepper. However, Roy Wood Jr. will not be among them, as he announced back in October that he was leaving the show after being passed over to take the reigns from Noah.

It was previously reported that the show would lean into correspondents to host over celebrity guests, as some were in the middle of contract renegotiations.

Stewart will likewise executive produce every episode of The Daily Show through 2024 and 2025 to help "shape" the next chapter of the franchise. The new gig will reunite the comedian with showrunner and exec producer Jen Flanz, has been with the show for more than 25 years after starting out as a production assistant.

Of course, Stewart also started as host of The Daily Show 25 years ago this month in January 1999, until he left in 2015. However, after his Apple TV+ series The Problem with Jon Stewart was canceled in October 2023 after two seasons, he's now freed up to make the jump back to Comedy Central.